onvoltooid verleden tijd — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
onvoltooid verleden tijd is used for these senses in English:
- imperfect (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
- preterite (grammar) A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.
- simple past (grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.
imperfect — full definition
- adj Not perfect; having flaws.
- noun A verb tense describing a past action that was ongoing or repeated.
preterite — full definition
- adj Showing an action at a determined moment in the past.
- adj Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.